Impact of obesity on breast cancer recurrence

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Obesity is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer recurrence and cancer death. Recurrent cancers arise from the pool of residual tumor cells, or minimal residual disease (MRD), that survives primary treatment and persists in the host.

Studies show that a genetically engineered mouse model for the study of the association of diet-induced obesity with breast cancer recurrence. They demonstrate that this model recapitulates physiological changes characteristic of obese patients, establish that the association between obesity and recurrence risk is causal in nature, and suggest that obesity is associated with the increased survival and persistence of residual tumor cells.

Reference : https://breast-cancer-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13058-018-1087-7